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There are many behaviours which were common throughout human history which would now be fringe movements. Human and/or animal sacrifices, for instance.
by jwestbury 3y ago
There are many behaviours which were common throughout human history which would now be fringe movements. Human and/or animal sacrifices, for instance.
- edgyquant 3y agoWhat a weird example. Sacrifices have not been common in the west for thousands of years and the majority in the Middle East for over half that time as well. Seems like a bad faith gotcha
- keiferski 3y agoIf animal sacrifice became common again, I would expect articles to mention the fact that it was a human practice for millennia – and not pretend it's just a fringe thing those pesky Other People invented. Homeschooling was also the default thing a ±century ago, while you'd need to go back pretty far to find true animal/human sacrifice in European/European-American culture.
- Manuel_D 3y agoThe default thing in preindustrial societies was no formal education for the vast majority of the population. The elite - a small slice of the population - was homeschooled by private tutors, and artisans (also small % of population) went into apprenticeships. This isn't really analogous to a vision of the world where the majority of the population is schooled at home.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoHumanity was mostly illiterate and sheltered to a small community. Going back isn't always a win.
- tivert 3y ago> There are many behaviours which were common throughout human history which would now be fringe movements. Human and/or animal sacrifices, for instance. I better example might be freedom from surveillance. It's a totally fringe lifestyle to not be tracked everywhere you go, at least in a developed country. But your rhetoric might be useful for shooting down privacy advocates during the next dust-up. Privacy may have been common in the past but now its fringe, just like animal sacrifice. Key escrow is the future!
- bombcar 3y agoWhat's sad is the "fringe privacy" lifestyle has been getting easier and easier, because so many privacy invading things assume you have a GPS enabled phone on you at every moment, and are constantly connected to the Internet. Make those two untrue and it's like you never existed.
- jollyllama 3y ago>It's a totally fringe lifestyle to not be tracked everywhere you go, at least in a developed country. You're proving GP's point, that was the norm in developed countries 100 years ago and to a relative degree 50 years ago. The organs of the state and of capital which effected surveillance or tracking were tiny and isolated compared to what they are now.
- mcpackieh 3y agoHuman sacrifice is an interesting example, since there are several public school proponents throughout this discussion arguing that good parents have an obligation to send their bad schools to thereby improve the quality of those schools for the other children. This amounts to human sacrifice.